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Species of flowering plant
Ageratina havanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade :
Tracheophytes
Clade :
Angiosperms
Clade :
Eudicots
Clade :
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Genus:
Ageratina
Species:
A. havanensis
Binomial name
Ageratina havanensis (Kunth) R.M King & H.Rob.
Synonyms
[2]
Bulbostylis deltoides Buckley
Eupatorium ageratifolium DC.
Eupatorium ageratoides Bertero ex DC. 1836 not L.f. 1782
Eupatorium berlandieri DC.
Eupatorium havanense Kunth
Eupatorium leiophyllum Less.
Eupatorium lindheimerianum Scheele
Eupatorium papantlense Less.
Eupatorium texense (Torr. & A.Gray) Rydb.
Kyrstenia ageratifolia (DC.) Greene
Mikania deltoides Poepp. ex Spreng.
Ageratina havanensis , the Havana snakeroot
[3] or white mistflower ,
[4] is a species of
flowering
shrub in the family
Asteraceae , native to the south-western United States (
Texas ), Cuba, and north-eastern and east-central Mexico (
Veracruz ,
Tamaulipas ,
Coahuila ,
Nuevo León ,
Hidalgo ,
San Luis Potosí ,
Puebla ,
Guanajuato ,
Querétaro ).
[5] Unlike many other species of Ageratina , it is evergreen.
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
Etymology
Ageratina is derived from
Greek meaning 'un-aging', in reference to the flowers keeping their color for a long time. This name was used by
Dioscorides for a number of different plants.
[10]
References
^ Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) & IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group (2019).
"Ageratina havanensis " .
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 208 .
IUCN . e.T144308616A149008129.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T144308616A149008129.en .
^
"Ageratina havanensis (Kunth) R.M King & H.Rob." . The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via
The Plant List . Note that this website has been superseded by
World Flora Online
^
USDA, NRCS (n.d.).
"Ageratina havanensis " . The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov) . Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team.
^
Williamson County Chapter (NPSOT-Wilco) Native Plant Society of Texas, Ageratina havanensis – White Mistflower
^ George Diggs; Barney Lipscomb; Robert O'Kennon (1999).
Shinners & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas . Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
ISBN
978-1-889878-01-0 .
^ Nesom, Guy L. (2006).
"Ageratina havanensis " . In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.).
Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA) . Vol. 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org,
Missouri Botanical Garden , St. Louis, MO &
Harvard University Herbaria , Cambridge, MA.
^
"Ageratina havanensis " . County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) . Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
^ Turner, B. L. 1997. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 1 -- Eupatorieae. Phytologia Memoirs 11: i–iv, 1–272
^ Turner, B. L. 2010. Phytologia 92:388-399
^ Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
9780521866453 (hardback),
ISBN
9780521685535 (paperback). pp 39
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